Entries Tagged Climate Change

Environmental engineering and construction services firm Brown and Caldwell has been hired by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to study...

Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed an executive order to protect the state’s water supplies from the impacts of climate-driven extremes in weather. After...

While residents in California are still dealing with damage from last month's floods — after years of devastating droughts — University of...

Access to safe, affordable water is a necessity for human health and well-being. But when droughts strike areas that are already water-stressed,...

The Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies recently cheered the release of Congress' Fiscal Year 2023 omnibus appropriations legislation, which includes a first-ever appropriation for...

Utility managers across the United States are tasked with making their systems more resilient to deal with climate change and aging infrastructure...

A diverse group of influential thinkers from within and outside the water community put forth 10 recommendations for a sustainable water future...

A white mineral ring as tall as the Statue of Liberty creeps up the steep shoreline of Lake Mead, a Colorado River...

Researchers at the University of Kansas School of Engineering are set to begin a two-year project aimed at creating models using projected...

A one-two punch of precipitation resulted in damage to Oroville Dam's main and emergency spillways pushing the second largest dam in California...

Tens of millions of people in the United States live in areas at risk of coastal flooding, and even more are moving...

A Western University flood-control expert has developed the first Canada-wide maps showing how floodplains — including low-lying areas of major cities like Vancouver and...

Entry 336332A new study projects that a hot and dry future climate may lead to a 29% decline in Upper Colorado River Basin “baseflow”...

The world’s leading water event, World Water Week, was held Aug. 23-27 against a dramatic backdrop of unprecedented climate-induced disasters in many parts of the...